Thursday, November 21, 2013

After reading a few books by Simon Scarrow, and getting halfway in the first historical book of five regarding the Roman empire I decided to dig up my roman and celtic dba armies.
As I think Hail Caesar is a great set of rules I am basing the models to be able to play both dba and HC.
This evening I finished the Romans, next will be the Celts/Britons, then there will be a lot of painting to do..

The waterfall is taking shape, I started with a thin string of cotton, and some small drops of superglue. Then some more cotton, and a lot more superglue, to finish this stage I poured the last of Vallejos still water over the fall, to give the glossy, wet look. When I get more of the modeling water I will add a bit more to the fall as well as fluff up the foamy blob at the bottom.
An idéa that worked quite well so far!

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

So, here is the story of an epic hobby failure. It was a long time since I made a stupid mistake like this, not counting splashing superglue everywhere on your hands and tools. There is a reason I didn't post anything regarding adding tracks to my t-34 last night. Let mistakes, common or not, be a reminder to think a bit more next time there is something that can possibly go wrong..

Anyhow, I use Still Water from Vallejo, as I think it is the best product and with the best clear result for a still water.

This is the intended result, with the water stop at the end, a nice piece of water, waiting to dry. Normally you should wait 24 hours between the layers, with each layer being just a millimetre or so. But since I have a very rough surface to cover, that would mean that I have a lot of different levels of the first layer wich will make the next layer not quite match up, so as I have tried this before I knew that with a few more days I can add so much water as the first layer is flat. This is good if you want to add fish for example... ;)

Now for the bad things, I have stuck the plants in the river, pressing through the bottom and as a result the water slipped past the hard mix of sand and filler.

The pillars that should hold the bridge is also pressed down, not a long way at all but you can clearly see the holes which the water went through. The problem was that apparently white styrofoam isn't waterproof as you might have imagined, I sure did. The Still Water wasn't so still after all, and after a panicked wiping and covering of the holes underneath, without tilting the whole board I carefully put the hole board on a cut up big plastic bag so the water effect would not damage anything underneath the board, this will be a permanent solution as the water effect now has glued the bag and the board tohether. Oh well, you learn something every day, no matter how sticky and messy it may be..

Here are some fishies, waiting to harden and get painted, these will then be glued to the first layer of water, and then be covered with more water.

Monday, November 18, 2013

I got some fish tank plastic plants which I used a screw to press into the styrofoam, and then twist the screw back up without the plant following. This worked surprisingly well and no glue were needed and the plants are really stuck in place if you dont *want* to remove them of course. It is looking great with all the vegetation now.
More to come!

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Step two, the Wash. I used an old ogryn flesh that has got some black, brown and sepia mixed in along with water and god knows what else.
It really doesnt matter as you just need to make the details pop.

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This is my blog about my modeling hobby!

I have been modeling as long as I can remember, and been wargaming almost as long. Today I live in Eksjö, Sweden, and my main modeling focus these days is mostly modern, WW2, napoleonic.. anything historical really. And sci fi. And a little fantasy too. I try not to have too many projects running at the same time, yeah right.. :)